Caroline Leavitt: carleavitt@hotmail.com
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\nJane Ciabattari, O, the Oprah Magazine
Riveting
\n\nVanity Fair, Hot Type
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\n The London Mail
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Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Cruel Beautiful World, Is This Tomorrow, Pictures of You, Girls In Trouble, Coming Back To Me, Living Other Lives, Into Thin Air, Family, Jealousies, Lifelines, Meeting Rozzy Halfway.Various titles were optioned for film, translated into different languages, and condensed in magazines.
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Cruel Beautiful World was an Indie Next Pick and a Best Book ofi the Year from Blog Critics and The Pulpwood Queens.
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Her ninth novel, Pictures of You, went into three printings months before publication and is now in its fourth printing. A New York Times bestseller, it was also a Costco "Pennie's Pick," A San Francisco Chronicle Editor's Choice "Lit Pick," and was one of the top 20 books published so far in 2011, as named by BookPage. Pictures of You was also on the Best Books of 2011 lists from The San Francisco Chronicle, The Providence Journal, Bookmarks Magazine and Kirkus Reviews.
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\nFilm and book inquiries
\nGail Hochman
\nBrandt and Hochman Literary Agents, Inc
\n1501 Broadway, Suite 2310
\nNY, NY 10036
\n212-840-5760
\nGhochman@bromasite.com
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Her novel, Is This Tomorrow is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, a San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick/Editor's Choice, a Jewish Book Council Bookclub Pick, a WNBA National Great Group Reads, a May Indie Next Pick, A Best Book of 2013 from January magazine, on the longlist for the Maine Readers' Choice Award, and the winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award.
\n\nHer many essays, stories, book reviews and articles have appeared in Salon, Psychology Today, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, The New York Times Modern Love, Publisher's Weekly, People, Real Simple, New York Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and numerous anthologies. She won First Prize in Redbook Magazine's Young Writers Contest for her short story, "Meeting Rozzy Halfway," which grew into the novel. The recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Award for Fiction for Into Thin Air, she was also a National Magazine Award nominee for personal essay, and she was awarded an honorable mention, Goldenberg Prize for Fiction from the Bellevue Literary Review, for "Breathe," a portion of Pictures of You. As a screenwriter, Caroline was a Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fellow Finalist, and is a recent first-round finalist in the Sundance Screenwriting Lab competition for her script of Is This Tomorrow.
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Caroline has been a judge in both the Writers' Voice Fiction Awards in New York City and the Midatlantic Arts Grants in Fiction. She teaches novel writing online at both Stanford University and UCLA Extension Writers Program, as well as working with writers privately.
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Caroline has appeared on The Today Show, Diane Rehm, German and Canadian TV, and more, and she has been featured on The View From The Bay. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, New York City's unofficial sixth borough, with her husband, the writer Jeff Tamarkin, and has an acting student son, Max.
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CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD
\n\nNPR Weekend Edition with Scott Simon
\n\nLori & Julia's BookClub
\nSt. Paul/Minneapolis Everything Entertainment
\n88 Cups of Tea
\nNew York Times Modern Love Podcast with Ruth Negga
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PICTURES OF YOU
\n\nAnnie Lamott video interview
\nThe Book Show
\nLilith Magazine
\nWestport Library
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GIRLS IN TROUBLE
\n\nDiane Rehm Show
\nNYTimes
\nThe Today Show
\nBella
\nWriters on Writing
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\nIS THIS TOMORROW
\nHistorical bookclub
\nWashington Independent
\nPsychology Today
\nThe Nervous Breakdown
\nHuffington Post
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Publicist:
\nMichael McKenzie
\n\nFilm Representation:
\nAmy Schiffman, IPG
\n10585 Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 140
Los Angeles, CA 90025
\nAmy@ipglm.xom
\n310-402-5156
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Film Manager: Richard Arlook
\nThe Arlook Group
\n201 S. Beverly Drive.
\nBeverly Hills, CA 90212
310-550-5714
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\n\nBooks In Common
\nTo arrange a speaking engagement, contact Dawn Stuart at Books In Common, dawn@booksincommon.org
\n541-318-6288"
\nCarol Schneider
\nDirector, Workman Speakers Bureau
\n225 Varick Street, NY, NY 10014-4381
\n212/614-7771
\ncarol@workman.com
\nwww.workmanspeakersbureau.com
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\n\nWILEY CASH, author of The Dark Road to Mercy
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\nEvents for With Or Without You
March 25/26 Houston, Texas
\nTexas Library Association Event "Authors for Your Book Club."
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PAST EVENTS FOR CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD
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\nMay 24th, MeadowBrook Women's Initiative Book and Author Luncheon, 10:30 AM
\nCrest Hollow, Woodbury, New York
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\nPAST EVENTS
\nSeptember 14-15, Harbuck Scholarship Award
\nSavannah, Georgia
\nReading and ceremony
\nMore details to come
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September 28, 2017 Thursday 7-9PM
\nCelebrating National Reading Group Month
\nTowne Book Center & Wine Cafe, Collegeville, PA
\nSeptember 20, 6-7:30 PM
\nNew England Independent Booksellers Association
\nAuthor Reception
\nRhode Island Convention Center, Providence RI
\n\nOctober 4, 2016, Tuesday, 7 PM
\nReading/conversation with Rick Moody
\nThe Center for Fiction, 17 East 47th Street, NY, NY
\n\nOctober 5, Wednesday, 7 PM
\nClinton Book Shop, With Gayle Forman, 12 East Main Street, Clinton NJ
\n\nThursday, October 6 7 P.M.
\nBrookline Booksmith with Gayle Forman and B.A. Shapiro
\n\nNPR Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, date to come.
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\n\nThe NPR Book Show with Joe Donahue, date to come
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\n\nOctober 13, Little City Books, Hoboken, with Liz Egan, 7:00
\nCorner of Bloomfield and 1st
\n\nOctober 15th, Boston Book Festival
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\n\nOctober 18, Tuesday Point Street Reading series
\nWith Cathi Hanauer, Robin Black, Marcy Dermansky and Annie Liontes.
\nDualing Piano Bar, Rhode Island
\n\nOctober 19, Wednesday. R. J. Julia's
\nReaing with Gayle Forman 768 Boston Post Road, Madison, CT
\n\nOctober 25, Tuesday with Robin Wasserman
\nBookcourt, Brooklyn, 163 Court Street
\n\nNovember 1, Tuesday, Kramer Books with Bethanne Patrick, 6:30
\n1517 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington D.C.
\n\nNovember 2, Enoch Pratt Library, 6:30
\nNight Room, 400 Cathedral Street,Baltimore, Maryland
\n\nNovember 3, Pete's Reading Series with Lindsay Hattan, author of Montery Bay, 7:30
\n709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn
\n\nNovember 9, Cook Park Library, 7:00
\n413 N. Milwaukee Ave, Libertyville, IL
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\nNovember 10 . Highland Park Library, 7:00
494 Laurel Ave,
\nHighland Park, IL
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November 11, Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading
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November 15, Oblong Books White Hart Speaker Series, with Gayle Forman. 6:00
\nWhite Hart Inn, 15 Undermountain Road, Salisbury, CT
\n\nNovember 19th, Discussion with Susan Carol McCarthy, Janis Cooke Newman. 2:00
\nMiami Dad College, Bldg. 8 Room 8303
300NE Second Ave
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January 14-17, The Pulpwood Queens, Texas
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\n\nJanuary 29th Sunday, 12-4 Ramsey Public Library Book Club, NJ
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\n\nFebruary 6, Monday, 7 PM. Temple Ner Tamid, 368 Lowell Street, Peabody, MA
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\n\nFebruary 7, Tuesday. Noon. Hadassah Northeast
\n1320 Center Street, Newton Center MA
\n\nFeb 10 Thursday, AWP. Washington, D.C.
\n9:00 -10:15 Panel: Can You Go Home Again? Marquis Salon 1 & 2 Marriott Marquis, meeting level 2
\n1:30-2:45 Panel: Understanding the Role of the Author as a Reader and Reviewer
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February 18 Saturday, Savannah Book Festival, Savannah Georgia
\nLutheran Church Sanctuary , 9:00-10 AM
\n\nFebruary 24th 7-9 Open Book, Montclair Public Library. I will be interviewing Christina Baker Kline
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\n\nFebruary 28, Tuesday, 10 AM, 2017 Book and Author Luncheon
\nGilda Mallin Boca West Chapter of Hadassah, Boca West Country Club
\n\nMarch 11th, Saturday. 10-11 AM Tucson Book Festival
\nUniversity of Arizona, Tucson
\nPanel on the Literary Thriller with Joyce Maynard, Amy Engel
\n\nMarch 13, 2017. 10:35-2:30 Monday
\nBrandeis National Book and Author Luncheon, Desert Ridge Resort Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona
\n\nMarch 17, 2017, Friday
\nBrandeis Book and Author Luncheon, Palm Beach
\n\nMarch 25, Saturday, 10AM. Virginia Festival of the Book
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\n\nMarch 26, 2017, Sunday 1-6
\nWord Up: Long Island LitFest, March 26
\nMadison Theater at Molloy College,le Center
\n\nApril 6, Thursday. 7 PM. WORD in conversation with Lauren Grodstein
\n123 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ
\n\nApril 21, 2017, Thursday
\nUnbound Book Festival, Columbia, Missouri
In conversation with Alex George
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\n\nApril 28-29
\nNewburyport Literary Festival, Newburyport, Massachusetts
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\nJune 10, 2017 Saturday. Maplewood South Orange Book Festival
11AM panel: The Future of Juvenile Justice in America.
\nJean Troustine, Caroline Leavitt, Rebecca Livingood, Karter Reed
\nBurgdorff Center Theater
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